The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state that, at the best of times, is fighting for its life.
Wracked by conflict since independence from Belgium in 1960, the country is currently battling the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in its eastern provinces and a resurgence of Ebola, even as global powers eye up Congo’s vast reserves of cobalt, copper and other minerals essential to the green transition.
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